Mark your calendars 📆 19 more days until our annual feast of the Archangel Gabriel. Do not miss out! 🙏🏾 | Debre Menkrat Saint Gabriel Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church

Ethiopia's Orthodox Christians celebrated Christmas, or "Gena," with prayers for peace amid ongoing conflict in the Horn of Africa. Following the Julian calendar, 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar used by Catholic and Protestant churches, Ethiopians traditionally mark the occasion by slaughtering animals and enjoying a post-midnight feast with family after breaking the fast. In a Christmas Eve broadcast, Abune Mathias, the patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, urged reconciliation in a